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If you've been around the US for a while, or you can trace back to the Puritians who never left England, your ancestors did. Puritians had a whole warehouse full of crazy in their naming choices, and someone compiled a lot of the worst (he does clarify that the really out there ones, like If-Christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hadst-been-damned went by the name Nicolas day to day, but his given, legal name, was that big long hyphenated mess.

Dancell-Dallphebo-Mark-Anthony-Gallery-Cesar. Son of Dancell-Dallphebo-Mark-Anthony-Gallery-Cesar, born 1676.

Praise-God. Full name, Praise-God Barebone. The Barebones were a rich source of crazy names. This one was a leather-worker, member of a particularly odd Puritan group and an MP. He gave his name to the Barebones Parliament, which ruled Britain in 1653.

If-Christ-had-not-died-for-thee-thou-hadst-been-damned. Praise-God's son, he made a name for himself as an economist. But, for some inexplicable reason, he decided to go by the name Nicolas Barbon.

Fear-God. Also a Barebone.

Job-raked-out-of-the-ashes

Has-descendents

Wrestling

Fight-the-good-fight-of-faith

Fly-fornication

Jesus-Christ-came-into-the-world- to-save. Brother of "Damned Barebone". I can only imagine this name shortened to "Save."

Thanks

What-God-will

Joy-in-sorrow. A name attached to many stories of difficult births.

Remember

Fear-not. His/her surname was "Helly", born 1589.

Experience

Anger

Abuse-not

Die-Well. A brother of Farewell Sykes, who died in 1865. We can assume they had rather pessimistic parents.

Continent. Continent Walker was born in 1594 in Sussex.

12 of the Cruelest Puritan Names (meant to remind children of the pain of the world)

Humiliation. Humiliation Hynde had two sons in the 1620s; he called them both Humiliation Hynde.

Fly-debate

No-merit. NoMerit Vynall was born in Warbleton in Sussex, a fount of beautiful names.

Helpless

Reformation

Abstinence

More-triale

Handmaid

Obedience

Forsaken

Sorry-for-sin. Sorry-for-sin Coupard was another resident of Warbleton.